HIP News

New Financial Empowerment Center supports City residents with free, one-on-one financial counseling Gaithersburg, MD – (October 3, 2022)  The City of Gaithersburg, in partnership with the national Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund), announced today the grand opening of its Financial Empowerment Center (FEC), offering professional, one-on-one [...]

PIRHL and HIP celebrate completion of new affordable community in Annapolis, historic street dedication in Parole residents Annapolis, MD (May 9, 2022) – PIRHL and Housing Initiative Partnership (HIP) will host a ribbon cutting and open house to celebrate the completion and [...]

Prince George’s County, MD (January 21, 2022) – Today a cross-sector working group of regional leaders and housing experts convened by the Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC) published a comprehensive approach to meeting the needs of tenants and communities living in rental housing described as “distressed properties.” The “Two [...]

Public-private partnership will bring transformative microgrid technology to new low-to-moderate income residential construction project in Prince George’s County Housing Initiative Partnership (HIP) along with Pepco and Emera Technologies, have been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) to construct a new [...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on August 3, 2021, issued a new temporary agency order designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 by avoiding mass evictions in jurisdictions that have a "Substantial" or "High" transmission rate. However, a few weeks later the United States Supreme Court vacated [...]

STATEMENT ON HIP’S COMMITMENT TO PROMOTING EQUITY AND JUSTICE IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES   We are sickened by the criminal use of force by local police departments that has taken the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many other African Americans during our nation’s troubled history of racism, [...]